#19thcenturyart — Public Fediverse posts

Kaffee, Kunst und Kaffeebilder

https://little-arthistories.com/2026/09/kaffee-kunst-und-kaffeebilder/

Eye Candy for Today: John Chrome landscape etching. For links to large image & more info, see my LInes and Colors post: https://linesandcolors.com/2026/08/20/eye-candy-for-today-john-chrome-landscape-etching/
#etching #landscape #drawing #johnchrome #19thcenturyart

The blue-tinted etching sharpens the contrast between the monks’ dark robes and the sunlit road. Bertin’s classical training emerges in the precise balance of natural detail and geometric composition.

How does the play of light on the distant building shift the scene’s mood?

#ClevelandMuseumofArt #19thCenturyArt #LandscapeEtching
https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.79

Rain blurs the edges of the abbey’s stone walls, dissolving them into the damp air. Legros’s needle traces every furrow in the field, every sagging roof beam—labor made visible in ink.

Does the figure in the doorway watch the storm pass, or the artist at work?

#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Etching #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.565

Baudelaire und der Maler des modernen Lebens – Zitate

https://little-arthistories.com/2026/07/baudelaire-und-der-maler-des-modernen-lebens-zitate/

Theo van Hoytema: Pioneering Dutch Nature Illustrator of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

📰 Original title: Theo van Hoytema: Master of Dutch Nature Illustration

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Sunlight bleeds across Mount Hayes, its slopes softened by Gifford’s feathered brush. The cabin’s rough-hewn logs and scattered stumps mark a fragile claim on untamed land—progress measured in felled trees.

How many unseen hands shaped this clearing before the paint dried?
#AmericanLandscape #19thCenturyArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.162

Rain blurs the edges of the abbey’s stone walls, dissolving them into the damp air. Legros’s needle traces every furrow in the field, every sagging roof beam—labor made visible in ink.

What does the absence of figures reveal about the weight of this place?

#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Etching #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.565

https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/artifacts/plains-indian-breastplate-richard-petri/

Lipan Apache?

#Texas #NativeAmerican #AmericanIndian #RichardPetri #LipanApache #History #Art #AmericanArt #19thCenturyArt

In *Rain Effect*, ink bleeds into paper like wet earth, blurring the edges of two figures bent over plowed furrows. The haystack’s sharp silhouette anchors a scene where labor and weather merge—does the smudged sky suggest storm or sweat?

#ClevelandMuseumofArt #InkDrawing #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.20

Rain blurs the edges of an abbey farm, its stone walls dissolving into the damp air. Legros’s needle traces every furrow in the field and crease in the laborers’ clothes, grounding quiet industry in ink.

What does the weight of that suspended sky press into the earth below?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Etching #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.565

Madame X: Amélie Gatreau und der Skandal um ihr Porträt

https://little-arthistories.com/2026/05/madame-x/

Charles Reiffel
Foggy Morning No 2
1895
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#CharlesReiffel #FoggyMorning #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Charles Cottet
View of Venice from the Sea
1896
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#CharlesCottet #Venetianseascape #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Abstract Paintings Inspired by Spiritual Visions by Georgiana Houghton

The Eye of the Lord, 1870. (Photo: Wiki Art, Public domain) In the mid-19th century, Georgiana Houghton began…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #19thcenturyart #abstractpaintings #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #CA #Canada #Design #Entertainment #GeorgianaHoughton #SpiritArt
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/597614/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/430997/ Abstract Paintings Inspired by Spiritual Visions by Georgiana Houghton #19thCenturyArt #AbstractPaintings #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #Design #Éire #Entertainment #GeorgianaHoughton #IE #Ireland #SpiritArt

Rain softens the clustered roofs of an abbey farm, each etched line dissolving into mist. Legros’s delicate hatching captures the weight of stillness in rural labor—what details reveal the hands that shaped this land?

#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Etching #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.565

Oh wow, a 19th-century physicist sketched what he saw from his left eye and called it a "self-portrait." 🎨👀 Groundbreaking! Who knew physicists were also aspiring artists, trying to make 1886's Instagram feed with their deep philosophical #doodles. 📚🤔
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886/ #19thCenturyArt #SelfPortrait #Physics #History #HackerNews #ngated

Vincent Van Gogh
Zouave
1888
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#VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Plum Brandy -- c. 1877 -- National gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Edouard Manet

A favourite picture of mine. I've probably posted it before, but no matter, because I never tire of it, and I hope that you don't either.

#Art #FrenchArt #19thCenturyArt #Manet #PlumBrandy

Vincent van Gogh
Woman Walking Her Dog
1886
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#VincentvanGogh #Impressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
Woman Sitting in the Grass
1887
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#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
Woman in Dark Dress Walking
1886
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#VincentvanGogh #19thcenturyart #figureinmotion #art #painting

Vincent Van Gogh
Window in the Bataille Restaurant
1887
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#VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Frederick Sandys: Morgan Le Fay – Feen, Teil 3

https://little-arthistories.com/2026/02/frederick-sandys-morgan-le-fay-feen-teil-3/

Vincent Van Gogh
Windmills at Montmartre
1886
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#VincentVanGogh #19thcenturyart #PostImpressionism #art #painting

Daniel Urrabieta Vierge -- Woman Smoking a Cigarette -- Etching -- 1888 -- Art Institute of Chicago -- Public Domain

#Art #Print #Etching #Smoking #Cigarette #FrenchArt #19thCenturyArt

Girl with a Cigarette I -- Anders Zorn -- Etching -- 1891 -- Art Institute of Chicago -- Public Domain

#Art #AndersZorn #Print #Etching #Smoking #Cigarette #SwedishArt #19thCenturyArt

Vincent Van Gogh
White House at Night
1890
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#VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent Van Gogh
Walking Couple
1886
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#VincentVanGogh #postimpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent Van Gogh
Violinist Seen From The Back
1887
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#VincentVanGogh #postimpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent Van Gogh
Village Street
1890
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#VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #19thCenturyArt #art #painting

Vincent Van Gogh
Two Heads of Men
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#VanGogh #portrait #19thcenturyart #art #painting

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/32381#information

I was not familiar with this picture before seeing it mentioned earlier this evening in Richard Wollheim's "Painting As An Art".

Now I am eager both to see and learn more about it for a couple of reasons.

In the Wollheim, "Gypsy With A Cigarette" is dated to the early 1860s, the author noting this early period as one where Manet was not drawing attention to his painterly activity on the canvas.

The Princeton museum, as well as discarding "gypsy" in favour of "woman" in the title, dates the picture to the alte senties or early eighties. Looking closely at the picture online, i thought that Wollheim's description of the surface was not borne out: I was interested to read that there is uncertainty about whether the picture was in fact completed. I really would have to see the picture for myself to decide on the value of Wollheim's judgement.

I'm also fascinated by the cigarette. Even if the picture dates from 1880, this date is still about four decades before it became acceptable for French women to smoke in public.

My interest in the cigarette is not purely historical. I gave up smoking years ago and would encourage other to do likewise, yet I still feel entranced by the cigarette's modern elegance (Note to self: read Richard Klein's "Cigarettes Aer Sublime".)

As I look at the web image, I'm just delighted by it as a picture!

#Manet #WomanWithACigarette #Art #Painting #FraenchArt #19thCenturyArt #Smoking #Cigarettes #RichardWollheim #PaintingAsAnArt

Vincent van Gogh
The Woodcutter (After Millet)
1890
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#VincentvanGogh #19thcenturyart #JeanFrancoisMillet #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
The Tarascon Diligence
1888
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#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent Van Gogh
The Pont du Carrousel and the Louvre
1886
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#VincentVanGogh #impressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
The Old Mill
1888
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#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Das Bild, das Whistler ruinierte – Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,

https://little-arthistories.com/2026/das-bild-das-whistler-ruinierte-nocturne-in-black-and-gold-the-falling-rocket/

Vincent Van Gogh
Sketch of an Eroded Garden Wall Ornament
1890
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#VincentVanGogh #sketchart #19thcenturyart #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
Sketch of a Donkey
1890
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#VincentvanGogh #19thcenturyart #animalsketch #art #painting